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Thurston Moore releases trippy video for "Circulation"

by Ciaran Thompson

Thurston Moore’s latest Rose Mackey-directed video for “Circulation” is maybe better suited for a person still tripping out on whatever they took last night rather than a wide-eyed, overly-caffeinated journalist sitting in a basement apartment reading news stories. The video is, as Moore notes below, inspired by “expressionistic transcendence.”

The track is off the his latest solo album Demolished Thoughts, produced by Beck and released back in May. Read the Sonic Youth frontman’s full quote about the video below.

“Circulation”, the 2nd video from Demolished Thoughts (after the dream cloud love + war visuals of “Benediction” by the mysterious, elusive director Josef Marie) – was inspired by the free-spirit poet/artist girls of Northampton Massachusetts who would explode and levitate into expressionistic transcendence whenever cool records would spin by local DJs Bill Nace, Jake Meghinsky and, when asked (rarely) – T Moore hisself. After being entranced and inspired by this ritualistic love energy it was decided by TM and Rose Mackey, one of the leading lights of this wild heart gang, to combine forces. Rose, a film director by devotion, and TM, who was looking to visualize his jam “Circulation” came together, employed the sensitive eye of Andrew Kesin, long running chief administrator of TM’s own Ecstatic Peace record label, to capture the magic touch of dance and music….. ——- and we all shine on.”